This is one for acronym fans everywhere: CILIP's Branch and Mobile Libraries Group is joining forces with the Public Libraries Group for a weekend conference this year. It's a varied and genuinely interesting programme, with the overall theme of ''Learning our futures today.'' If you ask me, the panel session on the final day - Looking to the ...

We almost won the quiz. We came second, which is perfectly respectable, yet avoids both glory and abject failure. We walked away with a tenner's worth of Waterstones vouchers each. I'm not sure of the wisdom of encouraging librarians to buy their own books, rather than borrow them, but what do I know? We should have won the competition for best ...

Today will have one of two outcomes: glory or failure. It's the CILIP NW AGM and pub quiz! 7.30, the Ape and Apple, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Entry is a fiver. We're entering a team in the quiz - our senior managers, two of my colleagues, and me. The mixture of booze and an AGM worries me slightly: it's too easy to volunteer yourself ...

Well, I’ve sent my Chartership submission off to CILIP, so now I’m just waiting to hear back from them and trying to ignore the niggly little voices in my head telling me that I haven’t referenced my documents properly in the introduction - I daren’t look and check if I have though!! So now that I’ve [...]

I think I now have all the documents together that are going to be in my portfolio, with introduction and Table of Contents and everything! A couple of them I need to print out another copy, as they’ve been revised, but overall I have a nice shiny blue file filled with paper that I can [...]

As I’m just tying together my portfolio and finishing it off I’ve been thinking about the differences between the two regulations. The only difference I can see between the submissions is that for the old regulations you need to do a 4000 word report covering their six sections. Otherwise the portfolio side of it is exactly [...]

As reported elsewhere, CILIP is once again revising its Framework of Qualifications. It’s not so long ago that the FoQ was revamped, with ACLIP joining MCLIP and new routes to Chartership being introduced. The value of Chartership is a frequent matter of discussion. Some sectors value it, others patchily. It is a necessity for higher pay ...

Well, I still have a few more things to do for my portfolio to tighten up my coverage of the different criteria. My supervisor is looking at it over the weekend and I’ll get more comments on what I’ve done then, but the end is in sight…

Well, I have (finally) got my portfolio together and have arranged a meeting with my supervisor for later in the week to talk it through with her. Hopefully after that it will only need a little tweaking and I will be able to submit it! After a considerable amount of time and effort I am [...]

In my course we’ve started by looking at eportfolios (not that I’ve done very much of the reading yet), but it has made me think about CILIP’s chartership process. Currently you have to submit it as three paper copies, or two paper copies and one electronic. Personally I wouldn’t want to submit it electronically as [...]